Stephen Lang (Twentieth Century Fox’s Avatar franchise, “Into The Badlands”), Nick Cassavetes (Face/Off) and Diego Tinoco (MTV’s “Teen Wolf”) are set to join Aaron Eckhart in Crypto helmer John Stalberg Jr.’s new action thriller Muzzle. Stalberg Jr. will direct from a script he storied with screenwriter Carlyle Eubank (The Signal).
Eckhart plays LAPD K-9 officer Jake Rosser, who has just witnessed the shocking murder of his dedicated partner by a mysterious assailant. As he investigates the shooter’s identity, he uncovers a vast conspiracy that has a chokehold on the city in this thrilling journey through the tangled streets of Los Angeles and the corrupt bureaucracy of the LAPD.
L.A.-based Highland Film Group is co-financing the thriller and is handling worldwide sales rights, with cameras set to roll this summer.
Stalberg Jr. is also producing the pic with Broken Open Pictures’ David Frigerio (Crypto), and Ford Corbett (the upcoming Where all Light Tends to Go). Exec producers are Dallas Sonnier and Michael J. Weiss alongside Highland Film Group’s CEO Arianne Fraser and COO Delphine Perrier. David Gugliemo is casting.
“Muzzle is a captivating thriller with an incredible ensemble cast, led by the talented Aaron Eckhart,” said Fraser.
“Truth and conspiracy powerfully interweave themselves throughout the film – it’s an intense and high-octane film that today’s audiences love. We cannot wait to see the cameras roll on this exciting project from director John Stalberg Jr.,” added Perrier.
Stephen Lang is best known for his performance in Tombstone with Kurt Russell, Screen Gems’ Don’t Breathe, CBS’ “The Good Fight” and AMC hit series “Into The Badlands”. He is expected to reprise his role as Quaritch in James Cameron’s upcoming sequels in the Avatar franchise, in addition to starring in Mid-Century alongside Bruce Dern and Shane West.
Diego Tinoco stars in the forthcoming Sony Pictures franchise Knights of the Zodiac with Madison Iseman, Sean Bean and Famke Janssen, and starring Mackenyu Arata in his breakout film role outside of Japan. Tinoco is best known for the Teen Choice Award winning Netflix series “On My Block”, as well as for other credits like Carey Williams’ R#J, directed by Carey Williams, and Stalberg Jr.’s upcoming Bad Hombres.
Nick Cassavetes is best known for roles in Paramount Pictures’ Face/Off with Nicolas Cage and John Travolta, Todd Phillips’ The Hangover: Part II and HBO’s multiple Emmy Award-winning “Entourage” as a fictionalized version of himself. He will next be seen in Stalberg Jr.’s Bad Hombres alongside Tinoco, Thomas Jane, Tyrese Gibson and Luke Hemsworth, and The Ogilvy Fortune with multiple Emmy Award-winners Keith David and Chevy Chase.
Eckhart is repped by CAA and Hirsch, Wallerstein, Hayum, Matloff, and Fishman; Lang is by Lisa Lieberman at Innovative Artists (New York); Tinoco by Paradigm, Impact Artists Group and Jackoway Austen; and Eubank by Alex Hertzberg at Atlas Literary.
Highland Film Group’s current sales slate of films also includes the action thriller Land of Bad with Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth; Neil LaBute’s Fear the Night starring Maggie Q; Daniel Casey’s Wardriver with Dane DeHaan and Sophie Turner; Rusty Cundieff’s 57 Seconds with Morgan Freeman and Josh Hutcherson; Felix starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth; John Stalberg Jr.’s Muzzle starring Aaron Eckhart; One True Loves with Shang-Chi’s Simu Liu, Phillipa Soo and Luke Bracey; Adrian Grünberg’s thriller The Black Demon with Josh Lucas; James Cullen Bressack’s Hot Seat with Mel Gibson and Kevin Dillon; K. Asher Levin’s Slayers with Thomas Jane, Abigail Breslin and Malin Akerman; Renny Harlin’s The Misfits woth Pierce Brosnan; Allan Ungar’s Bandit with Josh Duhamel, Mel Gibson and Elisha Cuthbert; Stephan Rick’s The Good Neighbor with Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Luke Kleintank and Avan Jogia’s Door Mouse starring Hayley Law, Famke Janssen and Keith Powers.